{"id":3163,"date":"2019-12-16T18:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T13:19:41","slug":"jeton-kelmendi-leta-mitica-published-in-italy-i-qdb-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/jeton-kelmendi-leta-mitica-published-in-italy-i-qdb-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeton Kelmendi, \u201cL\u2019Et\u00e0 Mitica\u201d published in Italy (I QdB, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeton<\/span><\/span> Kelmendi is a rich personality, with multiple interests, a tireless explorer of the real<\/span><\/span>ity<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>a <\/span><\/span>poets<\/span><\/span> who wants embraces the <\/span><\/span>breath<\/span><\/span> of the world<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>who want <\/span><\/span>to <\/span><\/span>capitalise<\/span><\/span> every experience to <\/span><\/span>fan the flames<\/span><\/span> of his poetry. In this <\/span><\/span>poetry book, <\/span><\/span>L\u2019Et\u00e0<\/span><\/span> Mitica<\/span><\/span>\u201d (I <\/span><\/span>QdB<\/span><\/span>, 2019)<\/span><\/span>. the poet moves mainly within two opposite dimensions: love \/ life and war \/ death. Kelmendi fought during the Kosovo war, experiencing firsthand the fear, the anxieties, the sense of precariousness that every war brings with it. But he has treasured this experience, trying to survive thanks to the power of love. <\/span><\/span>He wrote in the <\/span><\/span>poem \u00a0\u201c<\/span><\/span>Love in tome of war\u201d :<\/span><\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/span>If I confided to a friend \/ That I want to love \/ In time of war, \/ H<\/span><\/span>e would take me for a fool, \/ Bu<\/span><\/span>t even in the most violent clashes \/ A soldier never stops thinking about love<\/span><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span>. And in light of love, a<\/span><\/span> feeling without which the life of every human <\/span><\/span>plunges<\/span><\/span> into a dark abyss, the poet <\/span><\/span>re<\/span><\/span>lives the past, the places that marked the path of his life (Pristina, Volos, Ljubljana, Brussels, Tirana, Milan, Budapest)<\/span><\/span>. In light of love <\/span><\/span>he lives<\/span><\/span> the present and dreams of future.<\/span><\/span> In his \u00a0verses the readers can find <\/span><\/span>f<\/span><\/span>eelings, affections, the <\/span><\/span>shiver<\/span><\/span> of existence<\/span><\/span>. Kelmendi\u2019 s poetry is rich in metaphors, <\/span><\/span>analogies, images <\/span><\/span>by which the poet writes about <\/span><\/span>tragedies, <\/span><\/span>sorrow<\/span><\/span>, enchantment, wonder, beauty. <\/span><\/span>H<\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span> often<\/span><\/span> uses intense metaphors and the reader is <\/span><\/span>fashinated<\/span><\/span> by<\/span><\/span> an “other” dimension, sometimes surreal. The <\/span><\/span>Italian literary <\/span><\/span>critic and poet Dante <\/span><\/span>Maffia<\/span><\/span>observed in the afterword of the book: “<\/span><\/span>it is <\/span><\/span>very beautiful when his surreal vein finds the right figure to show the clarity of his imagi<\/span><\/span>nation and places within<\/span><\/span>short circuits the ideal adhesions, the ferment of the soul, the desires”. Kelmendi’s poetry also has an important, significant civil vein: \u00a0many texts<\/span><\/span> are<\/span><\/span> about <\/span><\/span><\/a>his homeland, finally free after a long and bloody war<\/span><\/span>. He never <\/span><\/span>fall<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> into rhetoric, <\/span><\/span>because he <\/span><\/span>enrich<\/span><\/span>es<\/span><\/span> his verses with the <\/span><\/span>warm<\/span><\/span> breath of existence<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> He<\/span><\/span> recounts<\/span><\/span> the<\/span><\/span> tragic <\/span><\/span>experience<\/span><\/span> of the war<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>that <\/span><\/span>he <\/span><\/span>faced <\/span><\/span>through the <\/span><\/span>love. In some poems he addresses<\/span><\/span> to a<\/span><\/span> female figure<\/span><\/span> never identified<\/span><\/span>, whose presence is fundamental for the author: “With you, I walked on the <\/span><\/span>blade<\/span><\/span> of the world, \/ With the loves of our earthly game. \/ In our <\/span><\/span>meetings the<\/span><\/span> light was born … <\/span><\/span>“.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span><\/span> book “<\/span><\/span>L\u2019et\u00e0<\/span><\/span> mitica<\/span><\/span>“, as<\/span><\/span> the<\/span><\/span> winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985<\/span><\/span> Ernesto Kahan <\/span><\/span>wrote, \u00a0<\/span><\/span>makes<\/span><\/span> known to<\/span><\/span> the one of the most significant voices of modern Albanian and European poetry<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Laura Garavaglia<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeton Kelmendi is a rich personality, with multiple interests, a tireless explorer of the reality, a poets who wants embraces the breath of the world, who want to capitalise every experience to fan the flames of his poetry. In this poetry book, L\u2019Et\u00e0 Mitica\u201d (I QdB, 2019). the poet moves mainly within two opposite dimensions: […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"book_author":[],"book_publisher":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"book_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_author?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"book_publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_publisher?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}